Intellectual Property Issues In Biotechnology - Hardcover

Singh, Harikesh Bahadur

 
9781780646534: Intellectual Property Issues In Biotechnology

Inhaltsangabe

Adopting a unique approach, and with case studies and examples from developing economy markets, this book integrates science and business to provide an introduction and an insider view of intellectual property issues within the biotech industry. Broad in scope, the book covers key principles in pharmaceutical, industrial and agricultural biotechnology within four sections.

The first section details the principles of intellectual property and biotechnology, the second section covers plant biotechnology, including biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, GM foods in sustainable agriculture, microbial biodiversity and bioprospecting for improving crop health and productivity, and production and regulatory requirements of biopesticides and biofertilizers. The third section describes recent advances in industrial biotechnology, such as DNA patenting, and commercial viability of the CRISPR/Cas9 system in genome editing. The final section describes intellectual property issues in drug discovery and development, personalized medicine, and vaccines in biodefense.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

- Professor Singh is Head of the Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University. Professpr Singh has been decorated with several National awards and honours for his key role in popularizing organic farming and translating agriculturally importnat microorganisms from lab to land. To his credit he has 20 U.S. patents which he has successfully transferred for commercial production of biopesticides to several industrial houses in India.

- Dr. Jha is the Regional Representative of International Livestock Research Institute for South Asia. Previously he was the Assistant Director General (International Relations and Education) Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and was Professor at the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying at the Banaras Hindu University where he spearheaded the establishment of the Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences and the creation of a state-of-art Centre of Food Science and Technology.

- Chetan Keswani is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University. Trained as a Biochemist he has keen interest in regulatory and commercialization issues of agriculturally important microorganisms. He is an elected Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London, UK. He received best Ph.D. thesis award from the Uttar Pradesh Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lucknow in 2015. He is an editorial board member of several reputed agricultural microbiology journals.

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